Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one… Anne.

This is not a story about well-behaved women. This is a story about the power of words. It’s about sisters and sisterhood, love and jealousy, support and competition.

Sarah Gordon’s new play is an irreverent retelling of the life and legend of the Brontë sisters, and the story of the sibling power dynamics that shaped their uneven rise to fame.

GENRE: Period

🎭 Workers’ Day at the Theatre 🛠️

Pop down and help us get the theatre ready for the season ahead. We’ll be making scenery for our upcoming productions, so it’s a great chance to get stuck in, learn something new, and have a good natter along the way.

Got your own tools? Bring them along!

Not a fan of power tools? No problem at all - there are plenty of other jobs that need doing, from painting and prepping to sorting and tidying.

Whether you can stay for an hour or the whole session, every pair of hands helps keep our theatre alive and thriving.

Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one… Anne.

This is not a story about well-behaved women. This is a story about the power of words. It’s about sisters and sisterhood, love and jealousy, support and competition.

Sarah Gordon’s new play is an irreverent retelling of the life and legend of the Brontë sisters, and the story of the sibling power dynamics that shaped their uneven rise to fame.

GENRE: Period

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Come along anytime between 11am and 4pm and lend a hand as we prepare the theatre for the months ahead. From tidying and props sorting to general spruce-ups, it’s a great chance to get involved, share some laughs, and enjoy a well-earned cup of tea together.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-The-Plow, takes us into the lives of two actors: John, young and rising into the first flush of his success; the other Robert, older, anxious, and beginning to wane. In a series of short, spare, and increasingly raw exchanges, we see the estrangement of youth from age and the wider, inevitable and endless cycle of life, in and out of the theatre.

 "A comedy about the artifice of acting... It is also about the artifice of living... An evening of pure theatre." - The New York Times

 "A comic masterpiece." - New York Daily New

 GENRE: Comedy

Come along anytime between 11am and 4pm and lend a hand as we prepare the theatre for the months ahead. From tidying and props sorting to general spruce-ups, it’s a great chance to get involved, share some laughs, and enjoy a well-earned cup of tea together.

P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarassment for her family—and especially for her daughter, Myrtle Mae—Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium. At the sanitarium, a frantic Veta explains to the staff that her years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, and so the doctors mistakenly commit her instead of her mild-mannered brother. The truth comes out, however; Veta is freed, and the search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition, looking for Harvey. But it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad after all.

Mary Chase received the Pulitzer Prize for this play in 1945. A celebrated success: This play has become one of the most successful and popular plays ever offered to non-professionals.

GENRE: Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy.

Come along anytime between 11am and 4pm and lend a hand as we prepare the theatre for the months ahead. From tidying and props sorting to general spruce-ups, it’s a great chance to get involved, share some laughs, and enjoy a well-earned cup of tea together.

It’s Hogswatchnight on the Discworld – their version of Christmas – but the Hogfather has vanished. Death steps into his red robes while his granddaughter Susan uncovers a deadly conspiracy involving tooth fairies, assassins, and the end of belief itself. A sharp, hilarious, and moving fantasy adventure.

A new adaption inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s best-loved novels.  The timeless and timely story of four young women and their journey into adulthood unfolds in Liverpool 1939.  This adaptation features accounts and memories from men, women and children who were in Liverpool during World War II.

Liverpool was a key target for German bombers during World War II because it was a vital port and strategic hub for the British was effort. Follow The March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, growing up on the war front. But growing up means contending with love and loss.

‘Little Women’ is a celebration of family, girlhood and the resistance of women, whether it’s Christmas Eve, 1862 in America or Christmas Eve, 1939 in Liverpool.

 The production will be written and directed by our Chair Person, Laura Elizabeth. Laura usually has a winter slot in our season so is looking forward to a warmer theatre. She is the director behind our multi-award nominated and winning productions, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Girls Like That, Hangmen, and The Unreturning. She has written and adapted a number of productions and completed a short writing course at Central School of Speech and Drama.

A new adaption inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s best-loved novels.  The timeless and timely story of four young women and their journey into adulthood unfolds in Liverpool 1939.  This adaptation features accounts and memories from men, women and children who were in Liverpool during World War II.

Liverpool was a key target for German bombers during World War II because it was a vital port and strategic hub for the British was effort. Follow The March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, growing up on the war front. But growing up means contending with love and loss.

‘Little Women’ is a celebration of family, girlhood and the resistance of women, whether it’s Christmas Eve, 1862 in America or Christmas Eve, 1939 in Liverpool.

 The production will be written and directed by our Chair Person, Laura Elizabeth. Laura usually has a winter slot in our season so is looking forward to a warmer theatre. She is the director behind our multi-award nominated and winning productions, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Girls Like That, Hangmen, and The Unreturning. She has written and adapted a number of productions and completed a short writing course at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Open Auditions for our September Production, Hot Flush

WARNING: You may laugh your knickers off

Meet Myra, Sylvia, Helen and Jessica in this hilarious show.

A successful barrister, specialising in divorce, Myra had always considered herself a together sort of person. That is, until she began to develop the symptoms of you know what…and her rat of a husband left her for a big blonde bimbo from his office.

Jessica’s husband has worked hard and made lots of money and they both enjoy the finer things in life. Her life seemed perfect until her mid-life crisis began but she’s coping with the help of her friends and the vicar. She just wishes that the vicar could explain why when God made man he didn’t try a little harder?

Sylvia has been married to Joe since she was twenty…and has been bored with him since she was twenty-one. She’s now decided that life is for living and she’s making up for lost time.

Helen, a widow, whose only daughter has left for university, is feeling a bit lonely. Helen tries to take one day at a time; it’s just that sometimes, several days attack her at once.

Our play readings give you a taster of a production and a chance to meet the director before attending an audition. It is not compulsory to attend the reading before the audition but we do recommend you do so we can plan the auditions.

WARNING: You may laugh your knickers off

 Meet Myra, Sylvia, Helen and Jessica in this hilarious show.

 A successful barrister, specialising in divorce, Myra had always considered herself a together sort of person. That is, until she began to develop the symptoms of you know what…and her rat of a husband left her for a big blonde bimbo from his office.

Jessica’s husband has worked hard and made lots of money and they both enjoy the finer things in life. Her life seemed perfect until her mid-life crisis began but she’s coping with the help of her friends and the vicar. She just wishes that the vicar could explain why when God made man he didn’t try a little harder?

Sylvia has been married to Joe since she was twenty…and has been bored with him since she was twenty-one. She’s now decided that life is for living and she’s making up for lost time.

Helen, a widow, whose only daughter has left for university, is feeling a bit lonely. Helen tries to take one day at a time; it’s just that sometimes, several days attack her at once.

From her own international best-selling Gothic novel. Kate Rosse has adapted the thrilling Gothic story of violence, retribution and justice.  

1912. In an isolated house on the Sussex salt marshes, Connie Gifford lives with her father. Robbed of her childhood memories by a mysterious accident, she is haunted by fitful glimpses of her past – whilst her father has become a broken man, taking refuge in the bottle, since the closure of his once-legendary Museum of Avian Taxidermy.

A strange woman has been seen in the graveyard – and a few miles away, two patients have, inexplicably, disappeared from the local asylum. As a major storm hits the coastline, old wounds are about to be opened as one woman, intent on revenge, attempts to liberate another from the horrifying crimes of the past.

Yvette is usually the June director in the Harlequin Season, bringing multi-award nominated and winning productions to our stage which includes, The Crucible, The Ferryman and The Welkin.

From her own international best-selling Gothic novel. Kate Rosse has adapted the thrilling Gothic story of violence, retribution and justice.  

1912. In an isolated house on the Sussex salt marshes, Connie Gifford lives with her father. Robbed of her childhood memories by a mysterious accident, she is haunted by fitful glimpses of her past – whilst her father has become a broken man, taking refuge in the bottle, since the closure of his once-legendary Museum of Avian Taxidermy.

A strange woman has been seen in the graveyard – and a few miles away, two patients have, inexplicably, disappeared from the local asylum. As a major storm hits the coastline, old wounds are about to be opened as one woman, intent on revenge, attempts to liberate another from the horrifying crimes of the past.

Yvette is usually the June director in the Harlequin Season, bringing multi-award nominated and winning productions to our stage which includes, The Crucible, The Ferryman and The Welkin.